Fan Fiction ❯ Professional Hero ❯ Fire and Ice ( Chapter 30 )

The Beamos stood lonely on the middle of the pillar, slowly turning, watching its surroundings with its cold blue eye, not caring what happened around him but eager to destroy anything in sight. Suddenly its world became dark. Since this was something intruding in its world, it started firing its beam.

"I got it!" Dekaru laughed as he put down the slingshot.

"Is that smoke I see?" Malon frowned.

"He's burning off the patch of dirt Dekaru shot on his eye," Darmani yelled, "we got to move fast!"

The four kids jumped on the centre pillar and ran to the other side. Malon, Mikau and Darmani jumped over the gap to the ledge but Dekaru slipped on a patch of ice and fell, just as the Beamos shot through the dirt and regained its vision. As Dekaru tried to get up, the Beamos turned and powered up to shoot. Dekaru flinched as Darmani threw his shield which caught the blast.

"Quickly!" he shouted, "jump!"

Dekaru got up and jumped out of the Beamos reach.

"Man," he panted, "I can't believe I slipped."

"That's okay, little bro," Darmani supported him, "it could happen to anybody, heck, I almost fell off, remember?"

Dekaru nodded and stood up.

"Pity of you shield though."

Darmani shrugged.

"Other and better." He grinned.

"Come on!" Mikau shouted, "I've opened the door!"

Quickly the two children followed their brother and sister into the next room.

"This looks pretty easy," Malon said, "we just go up the stairs."

"This is pretty easy," Navi replied, "it's the other side that's hard."

"Well," Mikau shrugged, "we'll cross that bridge when we get there."

"Do we have to cross it?"

"That's the only way to get to the other side, Dekaru." Navi answered.

"Come on, I've seen you walk on branches higher than this." Darmani patted him on the shoulder.

"No I haven't and neither have you!" he retorted.

Darmani looked down and gulped.

"Uhm, guess you're right."

"Come on," Mikau urged the two boys, "dad did, so we can do it as well."

"You two go first," Malon readied her bow, "Mikau and I will stay here and shoot those bats."

Darmani and Dekaru looked up at the many keeses that flew around.

"Thanks for reminding me." Dekaru gulped.

"Just go!" Mikau shoved him on the bridge.

Dekaru shot forward and ran to the other side with Darmani right behind him. Keeses tried to attack them but where hit by the volley of arrows the Mikau and Malon fired. As soon as the two boys reached the other side, they took their bow and slingshot and started shooting so Mikau and Malon could cross. When the four children were together again, they entered the corridor to the next room.

"Careful," Navi warned them, "there are razors in the next room if I remember correctly."

Beyond the open door they could see a huge blade cross the room.

"You remember correctly." Mikau sighed.

Without too much effort they made it past the blades and climbed the ladder to reach the door to go on.

"The next room is above the lava pits we were in a short while ago," Navi said, "watch out or you'll fall down."

"What's that?" Malon asked.

Navi turned and looked in the direction the little girl was pointing.

"I… don't know," the fairy had to admit, "I don't remember those chests being there."

"Let's check them out!" Mikau volunteered.

"And how do you plan on doing that?" Darmani asked in a matter-of-fact tone.

"Easy," Mikau grinned as he took the hookshot out of his tunic.

"Where did you get that?" Malon hissed.

"At home, it's in the closet here grandpa keeps all the stuff mom brought with her."

"I know, but how did you get that?"

"I took it of course." Mikau shrugged and aimed the hookshot.

"You think you can use it?" Dekaru frowned as he looked over to the chests.

"Sure."

With a loud click the hook sprang out of the hookshot and grappled itself in the chest. The chain reeled itself in at high speed with a young boy caught completely off guard. He crashed into the chest and waved to his brothers.

"It's alright! I'm okay!"

"We don't care about you!" Darmani shouted back, "what's in the chests?"

Mikau grumbled loud enough for the other to hear as he opened a chest. He picked a gold-plated bracelet out and showed it to Navi.

"That's a powerbracelet," she shrieked, "Link had one of those, they give you strength."

"Really?" Mikau asked and looked in the chest again, "there are three more in here."

"That's great! What's in the other two chests?"

Mikau opened the second chest and took out some bags.

"Bomb bags!" the fairy seemed overjoyed, "with a little luck there are bombs in the next chest."

"Even better," Mikau grinned as he looked in the third chest, "rupees, and lots of them!"

"We can't use that in a fight!" the fairy shrieked.

Mikau cowered a bit and tried to fence off the fairy.

"No, but we can use it in the city to buy stuff to fight with." He tried.

The fairy seemed to sigh.

"Just get back to the others, okay?"

Mikau nodded and with the contents in his backpack he jumped down and made his way past the razorblades to reach his brothers and sister.

"That was a smart move," Darmani told him as he climbed up the ladder.

"Save your mockeries until I show you what I've found."

He gave them all a power bracelet and a bomb bag.

"These bags can carry bombs and don't rupture," Navi explained and then muttered, "not unlike those rags they sell at the Castle market."

"We got any bombs?" Dekaru asked.

"No." Navi admitted.

"But we got bomb bags?"

"Yes."

"Cool!"

Oh, this was Link's son alright, Navi thought, the same optimism Link had in the beginning when she had first met him.

"Oh, and I also found this." Mikau beamed as he dug into his pockets and got out the rupee pieces he had found.

"Wow, that's…" Darmani quickly counted all the pieces, "twenty rupees!"

Navi blinked.

"That's all?" she asked.

"What do you mean? That's all?" Mikau seemed hurt, "that's a lot!"

"Link sometimes had to leave rupees behind because he couldn't put them away anymore," Navi huffed, "in his 500 rupee wallet!"

"Wow," Darmani whistled, "dad was that rich?"

"Well," Malon ended the conversation, "we think it's a lot of money, and we better move on. Now let's go."

The three boys nodded and followed their sister into the next room.

When they entered the room, a huge Lizalfos was waiting for them. He held his head crooked as he observed them and let out a loud roar just before attacking. He stormed at them at incredible speed while Malon shot her bow. The monster used his sword to shield himself from the arrow, leaving an opening for the thee boys. Darmani and Mikau jumped downward and slashed his knees while Dekaru just thrust his deku stick upward against his chin. The monster staggered a bit but didn't fall. He let out a huge roar and swung his sword at Dekaru. The little boy just caught the blow with his stick. The Lizalfos seemed to raise an eyebrow and looked puzzled because the stick didn't break. Mikau and Darmani struck at the same moment and their swords went deep in the sides of the monster, piercing its hard. He turned around violently, with the swords still in him and advanced on Darmani. Just as he raised his sword he fell.

"Not again!" Darmani yelled as he jumped out of the way.

He slipped on the ice and slid away towards the edge of the platform.

"Somebody, quick, grab him!" Navi shouted as the boy tried to slow himself down but all to no avail.

With a thud he crashed into a seemingly fragile ice column that surprisingly stopped him.

"Darmani!" Mikau shouted, "are you alright?"

"I am," the boy sat up and looked at what stopped him, "hey! A treasure chest!"

The three kids carefully made their way over the icy platform to see what their brother had found. Darmani opened the chest and gasped.

"Look guys, bombs!" he grinned.

In the small chest the children found five bombs, carefully placed so the cap couldn't go off is somebody kicked the chest. The children each picked a bomb and placed them in their bomb bag. Darmani took the one left over since, as he put it, he deserved it because he was named after a Goron.

"What else awaits us, Navi?" Mikau asked the fairy.

"I think this was the last major room," the fairy thought out loud, "now we just have to turn on the elevator in the main hall and open the Dodongo skull and we should be able to go to the boss room."

"How do we open that skull?" Malon asked.

"You drop bombs in its eyes."

The four kids looked at each other for a moment.

"We'll find a way." Darmani concluded.

The first thing the children did with their power bracelets was using a bombflower on the Beamos in the middle of the main hall. It exploded in a fiery blast that cracked the ice layer on the platform.

"Take that, you nasty piece of machinery!" Dekaru shouted, "that was payback you female dog!"

"I think the term is bitch." Darmani frowned.

"I know, but if I use that, grandpa gets mad," the boy explained.

His older brother shrugged and nodded.

"Now, let's get back up there and open that skull," he sighed as he looked at the large skull that was supposedly the gate to the boss.

Without any problems the four children ran through the mouth of the Dodongo to the inner chamber of the cave. They jumped down the slide and came in a snow covered room.

"It's cold in here." Malon shivered.

"Something here must be creating this cold." Mikau nodded as he scooped the room.

Somewhere in the middle of the room the snow shifted. Darmani drew his sword.

"What is it?" Mikau asked as he drew his sword.

"I thought I saw something move," Darmani answered as he slowly stepped forward.

With a small yelp he slipped and fell. He quickly got up and checked the floor. The place he slipped was ice covered with a thin layer of snow. Dekaru kneeled to swipe the snow away at his feet.

"Here it's rock," he said, "apparently it's only ice in the centre."

"When Link fought King Dodongo here," Navi started but was cut off by a huge roar.

The snow started to rise and huge ice spikes came up, covered with snow, as if it held the ice together. A pair of yellow eyes and a yellow mouth came on the monsters face, mocking the four small adventurers.

"Let's get that!" Malon shouted and shot her bow.

Just as she shot, Link appeared behind her, followed by King Dodongo. The arrow hit its target but seemed to have little effect. The ice monster expanded his arm and ice spikes flew out. Dekaru could just pull his sister out of the way while Mikau jumpslashed the monster. The sword went right through a snowy part of its body and did no damage. The monster turned and threw the poor boy against the cavernwall.

As Mikau tried to regain his senses, he heard some strange music and saw King Dodongo pass. Suddenly his eyes grew wide.

"Everyone of the ice!" he shouted, "Navi, what used to be there instead of the ice?"

"A lava lake," Navi said, "but after King Dodongo was defeated, it was covered with rocks."

"So that's what that red glow was I saw when that Dodongo passed." He grinned as he got out a bomb.

Darmani looked at the huge dinosaur and could also see that under the monster there was no sign of ice or snow but at the side of its path there was a red glow that radiated heat.

"Bombs on the ice!" he yelled as Mikau threw a bomb.

The ice monster went to the bomb to remove it, but was stopped in its tracks by Malon's and Darmani's arrows. Dekaru threw another bomb as the first one exploded. The ice cracked and the monster yelled in pain. By the time it could react to the second bomb, Mikau, Darmani and Malon had thrown three more bombs. Red cracks became visible under the snowfield, showing the lava was still active underneath the ice. As more of the lava became visible, the ice started to melt faster. Quickly the ice monster melted and the snow disappeared. Not even a puddle was visible.

"Okay, I know I just complained about the cold," Malon said, "but now I think it's getting a little too hot."

"We'll get out of here right away," Darmani nodded and turned to his twin brother, "good thinking there, Mikau, we couldn't have done it without you."

"We would have figured it out eventually," Mikau shrugged, "I just wonder what that music was."

"What music?" Dekaru frowned.

"Just before King Dodongo appeared, I heard some faint music."

"I didn't," Darmani shook his head.

"Me neither," Malon said, "are you sure you heard something?"

"I'm sure," Mikau thought out loud, "I wonder what it was."

"Uhm, guys?" Dekaru pointed to the lava, "I think that is rising."

The lava level was indeed slowly rising. The four children quickly ran up the slide that led out of the cavern.